That’s a wrap on Grafana Live Chicago!
Connect with your local Grafana community in Chicago.
Hands-on demos
Try out the LGTM stack at our hands-on demo booths throughout the event
Learn LGTM
Learn all about Grafana Labs’ LGTM stack: Loki for logs, Grafana for dashboards, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics
Example stacks
See example LGTM stacks for everything from observability to IoT business dashboards
Ask the experts
Get your fill of food and answers at our ATE (Ask the Expert) area.
Lessons & tips
Hear lessons learned from a seasoned Grafana user and tips for getting the most out of Grafana 9.0
Zoom fatigue recovery
Start your Zoom fatigue recovery in a friendly environment with a limited time frame and clear exit strategy
Agenda
1:00
Registration, demo booths, Ask the Experts booth open
Check in and check out demos of ways to correlate data from across the observability ecosystem. Plus: one-on-one time with Grafana maintainers and engineers to ask all your burning questions.
1:30
Opening keynote: What’s new at Grafana Labs
Hear from Grafana Labs senior leaders about community-driven Grafana use cases and the latest milestones from Grafana Labs, including the recent Grafana 9.0 release.
2:00
Your Stack for Anything You'll Attack: Zero to Observable in < 30 Minutes
In this session, you will learn how to take a distributed microservice web application from low visibility to observability bliss in less than 30 minutes by leveraging the LGTM (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, Mimir for metrics) stack on Grafana Cloud. With this centralized observability, you’ll be able to quickly identify and solve problems as well as provide your stakeholders at every level, from developer to senior leadership, a clear view of the application performance, user experience, and KPIs.
2:30
Break - Demo booths, Ask the Experts booth open
Explore hands-on demos of ways to correlate data from across the observability ecosystem. More one-on-one time with Grafana maintainers and engineers to ask all your burning questions.
2:45
How to use Loki like a pro
Join Ed Welch, engineering lead of the Grafana Loki project, as he reveals all his top tips and tricks for running Loki at high efficiency and getting maximum performance for your queries. He’ll also be available to answer your questions after the presentation at the Ask the Experts booth. (Find out all about how Ed monitors his homelab!)
3:15
Managing a multi-tenant Grafana and Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM) environment at DRW
DRW is a diversified trading firm with decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. Headquartered in Chicago with offices around the globe, DRW trades a number of asset classes, including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities, Crypto and Energy. In this session, DRW Observability Team Lead Kevin Franzen will share how DRW adopted Grafana for observability, how they manage their multi-tenant Grafana implementation with terraform, and how they’ve configured Grafana Enterprise Metrics to deliver helpful insights in real time – along with lessons learned in upgrading and GitOps.
3:45
Wrap-up
4:00
Drinks, snacks, demos, and Ask the Experts booth
Enjoy a reception with the Grafana team and users like you. Get all your remaining questions answered during continued demos and Ask the Experts booth time.
5:00
Event close
Speakers
Raj Dutt
Grafana Labs
CEO, Co-Founder
Maggie Krummel
Grafana Labs
Solutions Engineer
Ed Welch
Grafana Labs
Principal Software Engineer
Kevin Franzen
DRW
Observability Team Lead